confounding variable
C1CEFR level
65/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
A hidden factor that influences both variables under study and creates a misleading apparent relationship.
Account size was a confounding variable: big customers both used the feature more and churned less anyway.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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